The Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (Vol. VII, No. III, July 1852) — John Shaqi
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The Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (Vol. VII, No. III, July 1852)
Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons
Charities -- Periodicals; Prisons -- Periodicals
NEW YORK STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.--The annual report of this
institution for the year 1851, furnishes the following facts: At
the commencement of the year there were 429 patients in the asylum;
366 have been added, and 357 discharged during the year; of whom
112 were recovered, 15 much improved, 51 improved, 13 unimproved,
and 45 died. The number in the asylum at the date of the report was
425, of whom 220 were males, and 215 females. Of those admitted
during the year, the greatest number were between the ages of 25
and 30 years. Of the causes of derangement, the chief is stated to
be intemperance, the number of patients from this cause now in the
asylum being 44 males and 1 female.
EMIGRATION.--The commissioners of emigration of New York, in a recent
report to the legislature, state, that at the port of the city of New
York alone, there arrived during the year 1851, 289,601, of whom there
were natives of Ireland, 163,256; Germany, 69,883; other countries,
56,462; making an increase of 75,998 over the preceding year. The
emigrants from Ireland exceed the whole number from other countries by
36,911. Of these, 85,000 were in a condition which required aid, being
either sick or paupers.
It is stated in the public prints, (and we have seen no contradiction
of it,) that a single Irish nobleman secured a passage to our shores of
nineteen hundred persons, at the rate of £2 per head, and ten shillings
on their arrival.
BOSTON CITY MARSHAL’S REPORT.--By the annual report of the marshal
of the City of Boston, we learn that the whole number of robberies
reported at the marshal’s office during the year 1851, was 562;
amount of property lost and stolen, $44,418; amount of property
recovered and restored to owners, $26,131. The whole number of
complaints and arrests was 5,449, among which were, for larceny,
625; drunkenness, 1,465. Of the whole number of arrests made, 1,110
were minors. There have been 969 complaints made to the Grand
Jury, growing out of the sale of intoxicating liquors; and fines,
exclusive of costs, collected, amounting to $12,474; and 36 have
been imprisoned in the House of Correction, for different periods,
amounting in all to more than 10 years. The number who apply at
the marshal’s office for charity is very large, and all who were
really deserving have had their wants supplied by that department,
from a fund which is the proceeds of stolen and unclaimed goods,
an accurate account of which has been kept. “There is no greater
imposition practised,” says the report, “than the system of begging
and soliciting charity. We have now in the office a large number
of written and printed papers which have been taken from these
impostors; and from one person we took _twenty-one_.”
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